Improvement in handles for soldering-irons



HQK. HINES. Hqndle for Soldering Iron.

Patehted July 23, 1878.

l v TOR ATTORNEY NPEIERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON 0 C UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

HENRY K. IIINES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANDLES FOR SOLDERlNG-IRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,32,d:1fcd Jllly 23, lSTS; application filed June 1, 187

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY K. I-IINES, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Handles for Soldering- Irons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of side view of a soldering-iron having my handle applied. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of the handle; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section thereof, taken through the line a- 00.

This invention has relation to improvements in means for attaching tools exposed to heat to their handles; and the nature of the invention consists in combining, with a hollow wooden handle, a metal tube, female threaded at each end for the reception of the tang of the tool, and a clamp-screw extended through said handle, and preventing the same from being charred and loosening, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a soldering-iron, in connection with which I now proceed to illustrate. The tang a of this iron is screwed into one end of a metallic tube, B, having a collar, a, and two or more wings, 1), upon its end adjacent to the tang. This tube is extended nearly through a tubular wooden handle, 0, the wings b being received in recesses 0, formed in the bore of the said handle, and the collar abutting against its end, and is prevented from dropping out therefrom by means of a washer, (7, bearing against the outer end of the said handle, and a clamp -screw, S, extending through said washer and screwed into the tube B. By setting up this screw the wooden handle is Vigorously clamped between the collar and washer, and the tube B being prevented from rotating by the engagement of the wings I) in recesses c aforesaid, a very effective tool-handle is produced, out of which the tool can neither drop nor in which turn.

.What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the tubular handle 0, having recesses c, of the metallic tube B, female threaded at each end, havin win gs I) and collar a, and extending nearly through said handle,the washer d, and set-screw S, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HEN KY K. IIINES.

lVitnesses E. L. PERDRIAUX, ALLEN H. GANGEWER. 

